In Haiti, children are now being airlifted from rural villages to stave off death by starvation. Last month, international aid workers and doctors airlifted forty-six starving children in the southeastern Haitian village of Baie d’Orange after twenty-six had died from severe malnutrition.

Hillary Clarck of the World Food Program: “But what’s happened recently was a double-shock of the high food prices, which you remember, where the price of rice, which is the staple here, doubled in a year. And on top of that came the hurricanes, which did considerable damage to the crops of these farmers, many of them whom are subsistence farmers and rely on mangoes, avocados, cassava, to feed themselves. And so, losing those crops has put them into a very, very difficult position.”